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We won who gives a flying about the umpires... Battle, Clark, Marshall, Long, Coffield, Paton, Bruce...future looks good.
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Agree man but there is a post on this ****ing feed comparing her to hitler and Jack the Ripper. There’s another calling for a black dwarf to replace her. I got on here to celebrate a win and bemone umpires and I’m reading this bullshit casual sexism. It’s not cool. Let’s try this experiment. I’ll type the word “campaigner” in this post and we’ll see if I get banned by the mod before the post comparing Elani to hitlerFirstly, that’s not her name. Secondly, she has consistent poor decisions to her name. She was dropped after the Saints West Coast game for her poor performance.
She’s not a trailblazer for women when she does such a poor job. If you think she’s doing a good job for a woman, it’s far more sexist than you might realize.
I don’t think anyone here has an issue with a female umpire, it’s important that she’s held to the same standard as any other umpire - not getting games simply because she’s a woman. Otherwise it looks like a tokenistic appointment.
Holy s**t. Anyone else get that inbox from the freo fan.
What an idiot. What a melt.
I honestly think the umpiring has gotten significantly worse over the last 4-5 years as rules become ambiguous. It's about ****ing time we get some full time umpires in the AFL not part time amateurs, I don't care what gender they are, how old they are or anything else about them; can they do their job? No, not currently.And regardless of gender, she is simply not up to it. Yet. Fast tracked to her disadvantage by the look if it. Needs more time in the VFL.
Just like any other umpire who is not up to it. She isn't alone, mind you. The overall standard if umpiring us as mediocre as ever. She's just reflective of that.
Settle down. It's clearly a joke, no one genuinely thinks she's a bigger campaigner than Hitler mate. You don't need to jump on your white steed and don your white armour, she's an adult like every other umpire and she's just as open to criticism and fan ire for being ****ing god awful at her job.Agree man but there is a post on this ******* feed comparing her to hitler and Jack the Ripper. There’s another calling for a black dwarf to replace her. I got on here to celebrate a win and bemone umpires and I’m reading this bulls**t casual sexism. It’s not cool. Let’s try this experiment. I’ll type the word “campaigner” in this post and we’ll see if I get banned by the mod before the post comparing Elani to hitler
Other blokes get a bump and can't go on , Roma is a superstarFuture brownlow lock. Doubt anyone competes harder.
Haha Geelongs recruiting team just spewed up after that game and Lethers is rubbing his hands.....If they want Steven I want 2 1st rounders, danger, kelly and Constible.
Dude... her name is Elani. Just use her name... look at the comments... “token female umpire”. Elani was horrible today and I swore my head off at her on the TV. but I respect that she is blazing a trail for other passionate females that want to play and officiate AFL.
Not to start an extended argument about this, I'd rather enjoy the win, but you can't actually be sure about that. There have been plenty of terribly officiated games and we've been screwed plenty of times by male umpires. I just feel an umpire like Eleni is low hanging fruit because she stands out and can be seen as that. Didn't see anything I liked from any of the umpires today (including her) personally.
Clarke got us out of half back quite a few times in the last quarter. He holds the ball until he has a good option avoiding traffic at the same time.Clark just looks better out there every week. Very smooth, composed, quick thinking.
Pumped for Bruce - has had his ups and downs in his career, really nice bloke
This could be one of our biggest off season recruiting drives.Was a great finish. If Hannebery and Stuv had of been fit this season then finals were a chance.
Agree man but there is a post on this ******* feed comparing her to hitler and Jack the Ripper. There’s another calling for a black dwarf to replace her. I got on here to celebrate a win and bemone umpires and I’m reading this bulls**t casual sexism. It’s not cool. Let’s try this experiment. I’ll type the word “campaigner” in this post and we’ll see if I get banned by the mod before the post comparing Elani to hitler
Savage's last 2 weeks have been really really good. He was put on Betts after he was toweling up McKenzie and kept him quiet. With ball in hand today he was really composed and kept finding the right targets each time. Underrated player, but crucial in that backline.
Let her blaze a trail at the expense of other teams. Quite happy for Eleni to make it, when she is up to it. That looks to be some time in the future. The distant future.
This is the problem with affirmative action and tokenism. While it warms the hearts of the virtue signallers, it does nothing for standards overall.
This is a multi million dollar industry, not a sheltered workshop for neo feminist propaganda. You don't make the weak strong by making the strong weak. Meritocracy anyone?
Few key moments where he was excellent defensively as well today.
Eleni did seem to have a poor game, as she often does against us, but perhaps we just notice her more because of her gender?
She probably gets given the game today because it's pretty 'off broadway' - Sunday afternoon at Marvel small Melbourne team and interstate side who don't look like finals teams.
Regardless, shouldn't be umpiring next week.
In Europe so couldn't watch the game but listened to it from 5am. Just one question, how was Hunter Clark??
We won who gives a flying about the umpires... Battle, Clark, Marshall, Long, Coffield, Paton, Bruce...future looks good.
Roma 1 touch in the first quarter and looked badly injured, yet comes out and has 19 disposals in the last 3 and ends up with 13 CP's, 2nd only to Fyfe on the ground!